Dictionary of the Swatow dialect/go̤
gô̤
- i khṳt i lîah khù gô̤;
- he was seized and fettered by them.
- kùa châ gô̤;
- wear wooden gyves.
- cí sang ôi hìeⁿ tăng chēng lío chin-chĭeⁿ kùa châ-gô̤ hìeⁿ-seⁿ;
- these shoes are so heavy that wearing them is like being fettered with wooden gyves.
- khṳt i gô̤ tŏ̤ kò̤ ku-ā kâi gûeh;
- was fettered for several months.
- chôiⁿ gô̤;
- the silk-worm moth.
- teng gô̤;
- moths that flutter around a light.
- gô̤ bâi;
- delicate eyebrows.
- gô̤ bâi gûeh;
- the thin crescent moon.
- toaⁿ gô̤;
- a swollen tonsil.
- sang gô̤;
- swollen tonsils.
- cêk ciah gô̤;
- a goose.
- gô̤-bó̤, gô̤-hêng, gô̤-kíaⁿ;
- goose, gander, and goslings.
- cháu-gô̤;
- the common goose.
- thien-gô̤;
- a crane.
- hái-gô̤;
- a pelican.
- tèⁿ sí phŏ̤ hái-gô̤;
- feign death in order to catch pelicans.
- gô̤ mô̤ⁿ sìⁿ;
- goose feather fans.
- gô̤ mô̤ⁿ kńg;
- a goose-quill.
- gô̤ cíeⁿ;
- a goose's foot.
- gô̤ kîaⁿ ah pō;
- an humble bearing.
- lîah gô̤-kíaⁿ pìen nâng cò̤ ah-kíaⁿ;
- depreciate for the sake of selling at any price.
- gō̤ sí;
- starve to death.
- gō̤ kúi; io gō̤ kúi;
- starving ghosts, the manes of those who have no descendants to offer them food.
- tó sĭ būe cêng gō̤ tîeh;
- I am not yet hungry.
- cêk jît tó̤ gō̤;
- ate nothing all day.
- tâng mn̂g-khí gō̤ kàu mêⁿ-hng cìaⁿ cîah;
- ate nothing from morning till night.
- gō̤ khah kùe tǹg cîah lío àiⁿ sieⁿ;
- if you go without food too long, when you eat the food will distress you.
- i to sĭ m̄ pat gō̤ tîeh;
- he does not know what it is to fast.
- gō̤ kàu sáng-sáng n̂g-sng n̂g-sng;
- starved till he was thin and cadaverous.